Connecticut western news., 1887-05-11
pr G. l.. Tiffany, of Torrington

and consulted Dr Gidman, who hopes to benefit him.
 Harlan P. Tracy is daily expected home from his several weeks business trip to Illinois and other western states. Mrs Tracy and son returned last week from their visit to Cornwall Hollow. The repairs on the Ferris house are nearly completed, and Mir Tracy and family will move thither soon as their furniture arrives from Illinois, it already having been two weeks en-route.
 The new time table for the H. < 0. W. road "hangs fire" yet, probably waiting for official endorsement. We mistrust that the one which the Berk- shire Courier and THE NEWS mentioned last week was "Hook- k-ed" without guile, but simply to illustrate newspaper enterprise in foretelling how railroad companies will run their trains. Neigh bor Bryan doubtless Hooked on" instead of "caught on." Oh How could that guileless man deceive an innocent and confa! g editor?
 -MNIsTERIAL- Frank c Porter, of New Haven, preached in V. I. A. hall last Sunday morning and evening. Both sermons were excellent. .RevD. 0. Stone, of New Haven. supplied the East Canaan pulpit last Sunday and will preach in V. I. A. hall next Sun- day. Rev Horace G. Hoadley, of New Haven will complete his theologi- cal course May IS, after which he will immediately come to East Canaan and be the pastor of the Congregational church in that village for the ensuing year.
 On Saturday last John Rodemeyer, Jr., associate editor of the Norwalk Gazette, launched his new journalistic venture, the Norwalk Record, It is six column folio, With "patent inside" The outside is "home print" but not patented, for no one can initiate "Rhody's" style, although they doubt less will reprint some of his items, as we do to-day. The Record will be pub ished every Saturday is offered at 75 cents year, and is worth it. We wish 1t success.
 Asa V. Bartholomew left yesterday for Topeka, Kansas, to seek his fortune in that wide-awake and rapidly growing city. He has gained host of friends in Canaan during his five years residence here. His sterling qualities of head and heart are well-known and we re- gret to have such an excellent young man leave Canaan, but we know that booming western city affords better opportunities for young men to accumu late fortune than a New England village does.
 An exchange correctly sizes up the situation by saying: "There are events occurring in every community which, if reported in local paper, would create commotion little dreamed of. What to report and what not report is what often perple1es the local editor. He is often most unjustiy accused of cowardice or favoritism, when all the time he is looking toward the good reputation of the town where his lot is cast. The local editor necessarily almost constantly stands between two fires, and whichever way he moves he is sure to be unjustly accused. That is one of the pleasures of the business"
 We are indebted to the Hartford Evening Post for copy of the 1887 edition of that enterprising journals annual, Connecticut at the National and State Capitals" The sketches are comprehensive and the portraits are excellent. We would mention, inciden- tally, that while the Post only presents a bust of Representative Bartram, of Sharon, this issue of the NEWS contains full length instantaneous photograph of MT Bartram in the act of ''busting" Mir Skelly's argument on the Litchfeld county seat question.
 Large, larger, largest; small, small CT, smallest. A. s. Fassett, of Great Burlington, has just received the larg est stock of dress goods, trimmings, wraps, gloves, parssols, millinery, car pets, rugs, paper hangings and curtains that he ever ventured to purchase, but he will distribute them quickly for he only desires the smallest margin of profit on them. He indeed has city store, but his full column advertise ment gives you only faint idea of his immense assortment.
 A fair sized audience was present at town hall last Wed. evening to hear Dr Eddy's description of Andersonville and other rebel prisons. Considering that this is busy season of the year and also that it is over p years since the war closed, and that nearly every one has Bread or repeatedly heard descriptions of those prison pens, we can safely say the audience was as large as could reasonably be expected. The audience was Eddy-fed" and electri- fled by the Dr's recital of his expert ence and observations in those horrible prisons. Through some neglect or mis-
 understanding the East Canaan glee club was not notified in time to be pres. ent, as the majority of the club were
 away from home, but quartette was
 improvised which finely rendered sever
 al selections. Little May Roberts
 delighted the audience by singing the